close film is to book. Theoretically, there is no reason why the 
camera should not be used to photograph complex groups of 
items and events in dateline configurations, just as they are 
presented on the page of a newspaper. Actually, poetry tends 
to do this configuring or “bunching” more than prose. 
Symbolist poetry has much in common with the mosaic of the 
newspaper page, yet very few people can detach themselves 
from uniform and connected space sufficiently to grasp 
symbolist poems. Natives, on the other hand, who have very 
little contact with phonetic literacy and lineal print, have to 
learn to “see” photographs or film just as much as we have to 
learn our letters. In fact, after having tried for years to teach 
Africans their letters by film, John Wilson of London University’s 
African Institute found it easier to teach them their letters as a 
means to film literacy. For even when natives have learned to 
“see” pictures, they cannot accept our ideas of time and space